Eumops auripendulus

(G. K. Shaw, 1800)

Black Bonneted Bat

Also as Shaw’s Bonneted Bat|Shaw’s Mastiff Bat.
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Location:Costa Rica, Puntarenas province, near Monteverde, 1250 mDate taken:Jan 1, 2000

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 4676

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Yangochiroptera
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Molossidae
Subfamily : Molossinae
Genus : Eumops

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Shaw, G.K. 1800. General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Vol. I. Part 1. Mammalia. G. Kearsley, London, 248 pp.

Original name as described

Vespertilio Auripendulus

Other common names

Shaw's Bonneted Bat · Shaw's Mastiff Bat

Type locality

"Guiana." Restricted by A. M. Husson in 1962 to French Guiana.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic · Neotropic

Country distribution

Jamaica · Mexico · Belize · Guatemala · Honduras · El Salvador · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Venezuela · Trinidad and Tobago · Guyana · Suriname · French Guiana · Ecuador · Peru · Bolivia · Brazil · Paraguay · Argentina

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 24 names and synonyms.

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